News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 month ago
Up to 150 people were killed and more than 700 injured when two vehicle bombs exploded outside government offices in the Iraqi capital. Iraqi officials have held the al-Qaeda in Iraq and remnants of the Baathist party responsible for the bombing.
News Source: The Mercury News
| about 1 month ago
Two synchronized suicide car bombings struck at the heart of the Iraqi government for the second time in two months, severely damaging the Justice Ministry and provincial council complexes in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 132 people and raising...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
These despicable terrorist attacks seek to undermine the impressive progress that Iraq has made towards stability and self-reliance...The International Zone, or Green Zone, is the administrative heart of the capital.
News Source: The Examiner
| about 1 month ago
The Iraqi leader walked among the mangled and blackened cars, which lay in front of blast walls that had been decorated with peaceful street scenes of Iraq. At the Justice Ministry, windows and walls on both sides of the street were blown away, and...
News Source: War In Context
| about 1 month ago
The bombers apparently passed through multiple security checkpoints before detonating their vehicles within a minute of each other, leaving the dead and more than 520 wounded strewn across a busy downtown district. Blast walls had been moved back off...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Two car bombs exploded almost simultaneously, targeting the Justice Ministry and a provincial government building nearby. The timing of the attacks has renewed suspicion that insurgents want to destabilise the government before national elections in...